Keiser, Henry

Henry Keiser was born in 1849. Came to the Second Crow Agency near Absarokee as a trapper. Married into the Crow Tribe. Married in December, 1882, to Carrie Medicine Singer (or Carrie Spies on the Enemy). Carrie died on December 17, 1922. At Junction and Fort Pease - See Junction City, Haven of Bullwhackers, Billings Gazette, February 1, 1931. Creek near Columbus named after him. Possibly married again to Julia Dwyer in 1897, who died about 1930. See Progressive Men of Montana and Mennaparshu: The Autobiography of Henry Keiser, 1934. See Recent Death of Keiser, Squawman, Billings Gazette, January 29, 1933. Daughter, Myrtle, married J. E. Rawlins in Billings in 1919 and lived in Lodge Grass.

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See Junction City, Haven of Bullwhackers, Billings Gazette, February 1, 1931. See Progressive Men of Montana and Mennaparshu: The Autobiography of Henry Keiser, 1934. See Recent Death of Keiser, Squawman, Billings Gazette, January 29, 1933.